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82The Puritans' Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the New England coast of North America in the early 1600’s. It was formed by Puritan settlers fleeing religious persecution in England around what is known today as the cities of Boston and...
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76Religious Fervor and the Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Mass hysteria and religious fervor brought about the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and the convictions and deaths of innocent people.
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71The Movie "THE HELP", Sobers You Up a Bit, Doesn't it" Discrimination in America [73]
Discrimination and bigotry is a terrible thing and "The Help" does a masterful job of bringing the heartbreak of bigotry back into our minds, where it belongs. This movie made me reflect and I hope this hub will make you do the same as I explore how racism is a core value of all humanity which can be controlled.
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8417th Century England
The Virgin Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, after ruling England forty-five years. Queen Elizabeth employed an astrologer, John Dee (1527-1608), and it was he who invented the term "Great Britain." The English throne passed to King James Stuart of...
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78Symbolic Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorn's "Young Goodman Brown"
Symbolic Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorn’s Young Goodman Brown. A college student explains different symbols hidden in Nathaniel Hawthorn’s Young Goodman Brown.
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86America in the 17th Century
In the 17th century, America was primitive and nearly vacant. A few million Neolithic people were scattered over thousands of miles. Today it is the mightiest, richest, most dynamic civilization in human history. America is an...
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81John Winthrop and the Puritans
In 1630, en route to the New World aboard a ship called the Arbella, future Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop gave an inspiring speech to his fellow travelers. It was actually more of a pep talk than an...
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81Privateers, Puritans, and Merchant Capitalists: The rise of England and Holland.
Introduction. One legacy of early modern Europe was the expansion of wealth and the search for new markets. Crusaders took the Holy Land back only to be left with it to defend. They didn’t hold onto it for...
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83The Puritans
The ideas of the Puritans have been balanced throughout American history by the ideas of the Enlightenment, particularly the Scottish Enlightenment. The tension—and compromise—between these ideas has been a part of America since its founding....
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77The Salem Witches and Mass Hysteria
The Salem Witch Trials were a perfect example of Mass Hysteria. But how exactly did it come to be, and can it happen again ?
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